Convert JPG to text

JPG is what cameras, phones and most scanners save, so it is usually the format a page of text arrives in. This page reads each JPG and gives you the text inside it, on screen to copy and as a .txt file with the same name as the image.

Drop a folder of scanned pages and they are read one after another, then Download all saves every text file in one zip. The work happens in your browser, so a stack of scanned contracts, invoices or old letters never leaves your computer.

JPEG compression blurs fine detail, which can trip up OCR on small print. If you are scanning, save at 300 dpi and a high quality setting, and the text will come out cleaner.

Phone cameras save JPGs that are often 4000 px or more across. Anything over 5000 px on its long side is scaled down before reading, and anything under 1200 px is doubled, so you do not need to resize first. What you do need to fix is rotation: text lying on its side is not turned upright for you and comes out as nonsense. Turn sideways photos with Rotate & flip image, then read them here.

Each result shows a word count, and a note saying low confidence: check it when the reader was unsure of many words. That usually points to a blurry photo, heavy JPEG compression or a busy background. Scanning again at a higher quality setting, or photographing the page flat in daylight, fixes most of these. A JPG that has been forwarded through a chat app a few times has usually been recompressed each time, so ask for the original if you can.